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Feature #3

We need an open replacement for mpt

Added by Garrett D'Amore almost 9 years ago. Updated about 2 years ago.

Status:
In Progress
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
David Gwynne
Category:
-
Start date:
2010-07-30
Due date:
% Done:

80%

Estimated time:
Difficulty:
Medium
Tags:
needs-triage

Description

LSI's mpt driver is closed source. This is a strategic driver, and we need an open replacement.

Files

illumos-3-mpt.patch (99.4 KB) illumos-3-mpt.patch Gordon Ross, 2017-04-04 12:34 AM

History

#1

Updated by Garrett D'Amore almost 9 years ago

  • Assignee set to David Gwynne
#2

Updated by David Gwynne almost 9 years ago

  • Status changed from New to In Progress
  • Priority changed from High to Urgent
  • % Done changed from 0 to 70

an optimistic implementation has been written. just debugging the scsi io path now.

#3

Updated by David Gwynne almost 9 years ago

  • % Done changed from 70 to 80

one and a half hours waiting for the server to reboot between tests, half an hour grubbing around in the code...

scsi transport works now.

#4

Updated by Garrett D'Amore almost 5 years ago

  • Priority changed from Urgent to Normal
  • Difficulty set to Medium
  • Tags set to needs-triage

Reducing this to normal priority.

#5

Updated by Gordon Ross about 2 years ago

There's a work-in-progress snapshot from David Gwynne
attached here as: illumos-3-mpt.patch

Hopefully someone might continue this work,
test it, and get it integrated.

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